Alliance@PND

Through an agreement with UK-based Alliance magazine, PND is pleased to be able to offer a series of articles about global philanthropy.

LGBTI Human Rights: Pushing Back Against the Push-Back
October 7, 2019Hart, director of the Global Philanthropy Project, shares details of a funders' collaborative that is mobilizing grantmaker support for LGBTI rights advocates and communities facing hostility....

Human Rights: A Bread and Butter Issue?
September 6, 2019Economic rights need to take center stage, writes Ibezim-Ohaeri, before civil and political rights actually mean something for the millions of people globally living in deep poverty....

Time to Change the Way We Invest
August 5, 2019Based on the experience of the Wallace Global Fund, the foundation she directs, Dorsey offers six simple things foundations can fo to create a better, more sustainable and responsible investment portfolio....

Understanding and Assessing Impact in Peace Funding
July 8, 2019Peace-building is sensitive work, writes Lyons, and approaches to assessing it, as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund is learning, need to be equally sensitive....

In Search of Peaceful Development
June 6, 2019Working in the field of peace and conflict resolution involves a particular set of demands, write Bradford, Lyons, and Sansur. Funders need to be aware and willing to meet them....

Wanted: A Cure for Color-Blindness
May 9, 2019Policy makers and philanthropists often take a color-blind approach to education, calling for policies they believe will support "all" children, writes Raikes. But suggesting that all children have the same shot at opportunity is not borne out by the facts....

Let's Change the System, Not the Symptoms
April 5, 2019The large, complex problems of our times are deeply interwoven with today's global political economy, write Shaffer and Troll, and that is the "system" that systems change philanthropy needs to address....

Moving With Movements
March 6, 2019To respond effectively to the forces that create systems change, argues Lemma, funders have to be willing to change themselves....

Wealth and Philanthropy in Russia
February 4, 2019Increasingly, wealthy Russians are giving to charity, but their choice, writes Schimpfössl, is often informed by political and social expediency....

African Philanthropy Comes to the Policy Table
January 4, 2019Foundations and high-net-worth individuals on the continent increasingly are willing to join forces with government to advance policy improvements, Julien argues....

Behind Denmark's Royal Foundations
December 6, 2018Philanthropy helps the Royal House in Denmark maintain a relationship between monarch and people in the age of democracy, writes Thomsen....

Social Enterprise Is Eroding Civil Society
November 5, 2018As wealth and power is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, writes Behar, philanthropy cannot continue to fight symptoms while ignoring structural questions of poverty, injustice, and indignity....

Muslim Philanthropy the British Way
October 3, 2018British Muslim philanthropy is founded on both a robust charity infrastructure and on strong Islamic values, writes Aziz, and it's the job of Muslim philanthropy to carry forward these values and transform the general Muslim practice of charitable giving into a long-term, sustainable program....

The Untapped Potential of Muslim Giving
September 4, 2018On the eve of the World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists' Global Donors Forum in London, Sola, a co-founder of the Academy of Philanthropy, urges Muslim philanthropists to aim high and dream big....

The Infrastructure Behind the Infrastructure
August 6, 2018The digital space is the infrastructure we all depend on, writes Bernholz. But for civil society to secure its freedom of thought and action is a major challenge....

Tackling the Information Gap
July 3, 2018The global philanthropy sector's information infrastructure is wholly inadequate, argues Keystone Accountability's Bonbright. But it doesn't have to be that way....

Riding the Tiger of Technological Change
June 4, 2018Philanthropy support organizations have a vital role in ensuring that disruptive technology leads to change for the better, argues Rhodri Davies, head of policy at the UK-based Charities Aid Foundation....

Foundations at Scale
May 3, 2018What do foundations and donors mean when they talk about "scaling up" interventions? In the latest installment of our series, Alliance's Andrew Milner explains and shares some examples....